The Johnson Administration's Cuba Policy

From "Dirty War" to Passive Containment

Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000282153
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

This book presents the reader with a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy toward Cuba that was designed and adopted by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Based in governmental and other sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, the book analyzes the changes in the U.S. policy and its political and practical effects. Cuba still had to face a combination of "dirty war" and "passive containment, " but during the course of the 1960s, the influence of the "dirty war" policy was weakened due to the failure of the tactics to overthrow the Cuban Revolution by violent means. Instead, the policy was directed towards "passive containment, " characterized by its focus on an intensification of the economic blockade, the promotion of diplomatic isolation, and propaganda campaigns and psychological warfare. The book is unique since it is written from a Cuban perspective and it complements and enriches the knowledge of the U.S.-Cuban relationship during the 1960s, and the policy adopted by the Johnson administration.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Part I President Johnson and the Hostile Policy Toward Cuba
• Part II Tensions and Crises in 1964
• Part III The Diplomatic Isolation of Cuba in the Hemisphere
• Part IV The Economic War
• Part V The Defeat of the Dirty War
• Part VI Passive Containment
• Index